#itself

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#bad #either #good #itself #makes

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#art #imagination #itself #modern #modern art

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

#downside #fear #gradually #greed #itself

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#day #itself #meaning #only #other

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. ↗

— Eric San

#battle #celebrating #end #expression #in the end

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #body #eye #eyes #itself

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself. ↗

— Jil Sander

#fashion #fashion statement #feel #i #itself

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way